A new type of robots developed from thin sheets of material can execute a wide variety of actions despite the fact that they ...

Cynthia Sung, head of the Sung Robotics Lab within Penn’s GRASP Lab, is especially interested in getting high school students into engineering. Self-folding origami robots, anyone? Cynthia Sung.

A multidisciplinary team has created a new fabrication technique for fully foldable robots that can perform a variety of complex tasks without relying on semiconductors. Roboticists have been using a ...

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Inflatable, easy-to-make robotic muscles are performing feats of strength comparable to "a duck lifting a car," researchers say. A study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

It can sometimes be tough to grasp just how quickly advances are happening in robotics, whether it’s taking place on a warehouse floor or via an artificially intelligent dog that has learned how to ...